Music and Society
The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception
- Editor: Leppert, Richard
- Editor: McClary, Susan
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Contents
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword: the ideology of autonomous art Janet Wolff
- 1. The blasphemy of talking politics Bach Year Susan McClary
- 2. Music, domestic life and cultural chauvinism: images of British subjects at home in India Richard Leppert
- 3. On grounding Chopin Rose Rosengard Subotnik
- 4. Towards an aesthetic of popular music Simon Frith
- 5. Music and male hegemony John Shepherd
- 6. The sound of music in the era of its electronic reproducibility John Mowitt
- Index.